This week, we had the pleasure of chatting with Sarah Royal about her beautifully written biography of Lucille Ball: ‘AKA Lucy: The Dynamic and Determined Life of Lucille Ball’.Sarah truly captures Lucy’s life, character and grit in this colorful coffeetable book.There are images and easy to follow chapters to keep up with the aforementioned determined life of Lucy - the woman behind the successful redheaded character we’ve come to cherish and love all these years later.She tells us of how she came to love Lucy, how long it took to put it all together and how she was able to get Amy Poehler to write the forward! Such a great conversation.Sarah’s Book:A.K.A. Lucy: The Dynamic and Determined Life of Lucille Ball https://a.co/d/i4c68eVConnect with all things 'Having A Ball'•••YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDXuCxbfhUNJzJ_8wMfMD_w/featuredHaving A Ball Podcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Having-a-Ball-Podcast-103319291812682Having A Ball Podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/havingaballpod/Erika on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erikamurrietta/Erika on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/erika.murrietta.3Erika on Twitter: https://twitter.com/erikamurriettaLuci on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/luciana.ehrlingerLuci on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zivEmail: [email protected]•••Photos: Sarah Royal/ Running Press Hachette Book GroupProduced by: Erika MurriettaMusic provided by:Feather Duster via SilvermanSoundhttps://www.silvermansound.com/free-music/feather-dust

We are back! In this week’s episode, we chat about what we’ve been up to this summer! Erika tells us about all the newfound adventures in cake making and starting a business that has surprisingly taken off in 2023 and Luci has some big news to share! We have missed chatting all things Lucy but will be resuming episodes every other week! Thank you for sticking with us and let us know what you’d love to hear from us!

Hey, Lucy fans! We are back this week with another I Love Lucy inspiration episode of 'My Favorite Husband", Liz Changes Her Mind"... and if this sounds familiar, it is! This script is what inspired the 'Lucy Changes Her Mind' episode from Season 2 (our next recap). Luci explains what this episode is about and we get to travel back in time and listen to the original broadcast from June 24, 1949.

She went one "I dare you" too far This week, we chat about’The Black Eye”- the infamous black eye that everyone seems to get in this episode! We discuss all the misunderstandings and underlying serious issues surrounding them. We have some trivia, too!

Hello, Having a Ball listeners! This week, Luci discusses an episode of ‘My Favorite Husband’ - chatting about some interesting facts about the show and cast members. You will then hear the episode as it was played in 1951. Next week we will compare this episode and ‘The Black Eye’ on I Love Lucy!

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Movie Review! This week, we review the 1942 film, ‘The Big Street’ starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda. Director Irving Reis Writers Leonard Spigelgass(screenplay) Damon Runyon(from the Collier's Magazine story "Little Pinks"

This week, we recap Season 2, Episode 18: "Inferiority Complex". As Lucy struggles to feel good about herself, her loved ones certainly don't help with criticisms of her. We chat about the real life issue of depression, psychiatry, family support and how it was handled in the 1950's. Our hearts were with poor Lucy in this episode! Let us know what you think of this recap and please rate and review our podcast.

A HANDY DANDY NEW EPISODE! A message from our host this week, Luci: “Hello everyone and welcome back to Having a Ball podcast! Please don't mind my voice I'm getting over a bought of bronchitis. I'm so glad to be back with this week's episode, ‘Sales Resistance’ In another flashback episode- Ricky, Fred and Ethel start reminiscing about the Handy Dandy company and how Lucy has no sales resistance. I discuss fun facts from this episode including vacuum brands, plays, and guest stars! Next week we will be back to our normal scheduled episodes and I thank you all for giving us some time.

The time has come! Go! Little Ricky is finally born! This week, Erika is joined once again by Michael Mooney of 'Papermoon Loves Lucy'- one of our favorite sources for all things Lucy! We chat about the history-making episode 'Lucy Goes to the Hospital'- Desi Arnaz, Jr and Little Ricky being born the same day, the massive number of viewers that tuned in, and what President was overshadowed by this birth?!